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Elaine was one of those rare people who made you feel you were an extra-special friend - later to find that so many others thought the same thing.
She visited us regularly in Calcutta, in the 1960s, when I was a child and in 1971 I landed on her in Paris- 18 years old with a broken motorbike, thinking I was riding back to India. I spent 3 weeks with her, which was a pivotal, magical time in my life. So

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Elaine was one of those rare people who made you feel you were an extra-special friend - later to find that so many others thought the same thing.
She visited us regularly in Calcutta, in the 1960s, when I was a child and in 1971 I landed on her in Paris- 18 years old with a broken motorbike, thinking I was riding back to India. I spent 3 weeks with her, which was a pivotal, magical time in my life. So much happened in so short a time. It was years before I realised that it was all due to her influence.
Unfortunately, I believe , her stubbornness, which was also her great strength, was largely her emotional undoing. She was dead-set on buying her chateau though every conceivable thing went wrong. If it had happened to someone else she would have been bound to point out that this was not meant to be. Before the chateau she was living half the week in a large rented manoire on the outskirts of Paris, with Nima Tenzing and family, and half in her studio in Montparnasse. Everything was going so well. Then she bought the chateau, fell out with Nima and family, was ostracised by the local community through no fault of her own and spent 10 years mowing the massive open grasses by tractor, causing arthritis in her fingers and being unable to paint. She eventually sold her chateau and moved to a smaller manoire & thence back to the U.S. when her eyesight failure became severe. I wish I had seen her again after that, but I didn't. She is sorely missed & holds a huge place in my heart, all which stems from that 3 weeks in 1971.

Posted by: Mark Lindsay - Bristol, UK - friend Jan 23, 2013

Elaine was a great painter and a very intelligent, cultured, creative, imaginative, witty, entertaining person. It's crushing to know that we will never see her again, that we will never hear that voice again. I urge her family please to take good care of her paintings and do everything they can to preserve her artistic legacy.

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